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How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
by Danny Sullivan on June 1, 2010
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New Taxi of Tomorrow
Think it’s time for New York City to update its cab design? The New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has been hunting for the so-called “taxi of tomorrow”
The Greek debt crisis simplified and updated and cut to the bone
Greece’s government must cut spending and improve tax revenue in order to greatly reduce or eliminate its need to borrow, reduce the cost of its output (via domestic deflation or leaving the Euro and depreciating a new currency) in order to restore the external balance between its imports and exports, and to reduce the impediments to economic efficiency and productivity growth so that its economy can grow more rapidly. How did it get in such a mess? What role was and is played by its use of the Euro? And what are its options?
Inside China factory hit by suicides
While the number of suicides is below China’s average rate of 14 per 100,000, according to the World Health Organization, it is enough to worry some of Foxconn’s customers. Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Sony have all ordered their own investigations.
Guatemala’s Sinkhole Staggers Minds And Neighborhood
One of the most arresting images in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Agatha that struck Central America in recent days has to be the giant sinkhole that opened up in Guatemala City.
Italian priests’ secret mistresses ask pope to scrap celibacy rule
The issue was put back on the Vatican’s agenda in March when one of Pope Benedict’s senior advisers, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, said the abolition of the celibacy rule might curb sex abuse by priests, a suggestion he hastily withdrew after Benedict spoke up for “the principle of holy celibacy
South Korean eastern fleet mobilized to locate North’s submarines
South Korea’s military lost track of four North Korean submarines in the East Sea is now trying to locate them, according to the Yonhap news agency. The submarines left their base at the east coast of the Korean peninsula to conduct naval training in the East Sea earlier this week, said a military official in…
The World Cup’s Stars Wear Their Flags
With 38 days, it begins. The World Cup captivates more people around the globe than any other event, sporting or otherwise. Every four years, in pubs and corporate boardrooms, thatched huts and flophouses, fans of “the Beautiful Game” gather around televisions and transistor radios—and now, for the deep of pocket, iPhones and 3-D flat screens—to…
57 Ancient Tombs Cracked Open in Egypt
Some Tombs Almost 5,000 Years Old, Shedding Light on Ancient Religions; Many Contain Mummified Remains May 23, 2010, shows tombs discovered in Lahoun, near Fayoum, some 70 miles south of Cairo, in Egypt. (AP Photo) Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside,…